Art - American - General

An essential archive of a progressive public art program, spotlighting over 50 artworks commissioned for one of New York City's most iconic parksThis publication chronicles the vibrant history of public art in Madison Square Park, presenting two decades' worth of celebrated artworks that have...

Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell's abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead's highly original process metaphysics. Motherwell first encountered Whitehead and his work as a philosophy graduate student at Harvard University, and he...

Nationally recognized maritime artist Loretta Krupinski's meticulously rendered oil paintings show fascinating details of Maine's waterfront towns in their heyday, when fishing, quarrying, and the cargo trade were the backbone of the coastal economy. Historic photographs and text about how Maine people made their...

Travelers in Kansas in search of fine art needn't restrict themselves to the state's many excellent museums. They need look no further than the walls of their own communities to discover a remarkable array of murals--artistic creations that are striking, democratic, and easily accessible....

Energizing the visual landscape since 1968, New York City's community murals beautify, educate, protest, celebrate, and often motivate residents to action. Collaborations between artists and neighborhood groups, these painted walls reflect the social, cultural, and political climate of their times. The result of six...

""The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance"" is a comprehensive art history book written by the renowned art historian Bernhard Berenson. The book explores the works and lives of the most important painters from the Renaissance period in Florence, Italy. Berenson provides detailed analysis and...

Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners' equitable placekeeping efforts.Author: Brettany Shannon, David C. Sloane, Anne BrayISBN-10: 1032461993ISBN-13: 9781032461991Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2023Pages: 214Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Three generations of women artists create a new visual vernacular inspired by Maine's scenic landscapeThis catalog unites the work of three women artists of different generations whose work responds to the unique environs of Maine. Spanning oil paintings, fused-glass works and ceramics, these pieces...

Since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren that sold for $ 2,000 in 1996 are going for $ 200,000 and...

Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons explores the dynamic landscape of American art collecting in the United States from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. The geographic range of collecting histories presented in this publication spans the country, including the Eastern Seaboard, the Old...

The Mastery Of Oil Painting is a comprehensive guide to the techniques and principles of oil painting written by Frederic Taubes. The book covers everything from selecting materials and preparing surfaces to creating a finished painting. Taubes provides detailed instructions on how to mix...

Filled with meticulously constructed photographs that blur the boundaries between reality and imagination, this sumptuously produced retrospective features more than thirty years of work by one of America's most influential photographers. For more than three decades, Gregory Crewdson has been luring viewers into the...

New York's Harlem Valley, with the last stops on the Metro-North train line from Manhattan, has an incredibly eclectic history for a predominantly agricultural region. A Victorian utopian community claiming to see fairies settled in Wassaic, attracting Japanese samurai and remaking the townscape of...

A facsimile of the Just Above Midtown 1978 exhibition catalog that disrupted the white-dominated canon of postwar abstract artOriginally published in 1978 alongside an exhibition at the legendary Just Above Midtown gallery, Contextures was the first of its kind. More textbook than traditional catalog,...

This book investigates how and why women pictured the landscape in their needlework. It explores the ways their embroidered landscapes address the tumultuous environmental history of the period; how their depictions of nature differ from those made by men; and what women's choices of...

Out of Site explores the invisible landscapes of the American West through the interwoven forces of art and technology over the past 170 years. This interdisciplinary project features an array of visual media, including historical, modern, and contemporary photography, that punctuate a series of...

A special selection of Judd's minimalist works curated by his son, Flavin JuddThis catalog follows the first solo exhibition of Donald Judd's work in South Korea for nearly 10 years. Judd (1928-94) had a personal connection to Korea, having been stationed in Seoul in...

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, was a painter who took an independent and visionary road. Her paintings evoke varied interpretations yet maintain their beauty and simplicity. O'Keeffe's life is woven together with that of her husband,...

A paean to Baltimore's creative spirit, penned by its resident authors and visual artistsBaltimore has fostered literary and artistic excellence for over a century. City of Artists chronicles this cultural legacy, collectively exploring why "Charm City" remains a verdant site for significant creative production....

A new study of Mary Cassatt that explores the centrality of work to both her inventive technical practice and her distinctive approach to modern subjects Mary Cassatt's (1844-1926) sensitive depictions of the social, intellectual, and professional lives of modern women often emphasize the work...

For forty years, Jackie Frame stood at the center of business, entertainment, and publicity in Classic Hollywood. This stunning collection of never before told vignettes reveals that lost world in all its splendor and with all its quirks. No scholar of the period will...

Raised in Colombia during a violent civil war and now resident in Cornwall, England, the sculptor Carlos Zapata creates intimate and emotive works that have evolved from personal experience even as they belong to the tradition of folk and tribal arts. The Mestizo Art...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

In his debut poetry collection, The Nature of Things Fragile, Peter Vertacnik depicts a world fraught with vulnerability and loss. Utilizing a wide range of both received and nonce poetic forms, including sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina, epigrams, blank verse, and word-count, he confronts...

A sharp portrait of this turbulent decade in American life and letters, Frederick J. Hoffman's The Twenties is can't missing reading. A first-rate discussion of an exciting era and of the writers who found new forms in which to re-create their times, The Twenties...

In this magnificently illustrated and comprehensive book, readers will take one of the most beautiful journeys our world has to offer: an exploration of the greatest are and architecture of Western civilization. Art of the Western World -- the companion volume to the nine-part...

Art in the City: Michael VonDrak and His San Francisco Paintings is a biography and retrospect of American artist Michael VonDrak, focusing on his San Francisco paintings, and written by his daughter, Ilona Ryder.When Ilona Ryder was writing the personal biography of her grandfather,...

The Disasters of War is a collection of 82 etchings created by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya between 1810 and 1820. The etchings depict the horrors of the Peninsular War and the Spanish War of Independence, focusing on the brutal effects of war on...

The book ""Paul Cezanne"" by Edward Alden Jewell is a comprehensive study of the life and works of the famous French artist, Paul Cezanne. The book provides a detailed account of Cezanne's childhood, education, and artistic development, as well as his personal relationships and...

"Olson deftly sketches a lively portrait of the man. . . . She gives us his rich inner life as well. . . . Riveting. . . . Refreshing."--Wall Street Journal Exquisitely illustrated and innovative, an investigation of the artistic evolution of John James...

Astonishing, hyperrealistic black-and-white drawings of wings, urban landscapes, x-rayed paintings and moreA sequel to the 2011 publication, Charcoal Volume 2 presents the charcoal drawings of American artist Robert Longo (born 1953) from 2012 to the present. This large-format, elaborately designed catalog--printed on natural paper...

In 2015 the Renaissance Society presented an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Mathias Poledna. Coinciding with the museum's centennial, it marked the final show in the institution's first hundred years. For this project Poledna used the notion of iconoclasm and...

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most iconic figure of twentieth-century art, a highly enigmatic personality who not only altered the definition of art itself but also left in his wake a vast and staggeringly complex record of his activities. Warhol's archive consists not...

"Benos-Amos opens for the reader richly detailed adn nuanced vistas into the intellectual and cultural history of one of the major kingdoms of precolonial West Africa." -- African Studies Review"The wealth of historiographic resources, the command of relevant literature, the ethnographic research and prudent...

Circling the Start by Dixie Denman Junius is a groundbreaking debut in the Anhinga Visual Poetry Series, offering a transformative journey through the realms of visual poetry, asemics and glitch. Chosen by curator Kristine Snodgrass for its vibrant script work and radical meditative energy,...

The Nostalgic Northwest Arkansas Books are a collection of semi surreal grayscale images that delve into the past of this geographical area with historic architecture, memorable scenery, roadside cafes, tourist spots such as gemstone panning, a fleamarket of the past, barns and sheds, local...

The Nostalgic Northwest Arkansas Books are a collection of semi surreal grayscale images that delve into the past of this geographical area with historic architecture, memorable scenery, roadside cafes, tourist spots, barns and sheds, local critters and insects, and more. Book 1 scenes are...

The first book to celebrate the dramatic Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, setting and renowned art collection of the Brandywine River Museum of Art and its historic homes, studios, and sites relating to three generations of the Wyeth family. The Brandywine River Museum of Art is...

"History painting," for many people, conjures up Washington Crossing the Delaware and other paintings of heroic historical events. But history has made its way into considerably more American art than such obvious examples, in the view of Michael Kammen. In three thought-provoking and innovative...

The Hieroglyphical System Of The Ancients is a book written by George Oliver that delves into the ancient Egyptian writing system. The book provides a comprehensive overview of hieroglyphs, their meanings, and how they were used in ancient Egyptian society. It explores the history...

A Grand Tour of the works of Master Painters in Cuba during the XIX century.Author: Olga Isabel Nodarse, Ra伃 Eduardo ChaoISBN-10: 1329643259ISBN-13: 9781329643253Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2023Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

This beautifully illustrated catalogue showcases the artwork of Daniel Huntington, who was a prominent figure in the American art scene in the 19th century. It provides valuable insight into his life and work, and is sure to be appreciated by anyone with an interest...

Inspired by global masonry techniques and Hudson Valley history, Martin Puryear's installation for Storm King Art Center opens its oculi onto the museum groundsThis catalog documents the construction and unveiling of American artist Martin Puryear's (born 1941) monumental site-specific installation, Lookout, at Storm King...

A window into the life of a pioneering figure in the proliferation of East Coast surf culture since the 1960sTony Caramanico has lived many lives bound by a singular passion. A competitive surfer, TV producer, surf shop owner, astute traveler, apprentice and artist, few...

(Bilingual Edition: English / German)With over 1,000 works by a total of more than 140 artists from the 1930s to the present, Eva Felten has built up a unique photo collection over the past four decades, which is presented in this catalog for the...

Discover the life and work of Arthur B. Davies, a prominent American artist known for his involvement in the Ashcan School and the Armory Show. This centennial exhibition catalog offers a comprehensive look at Davies' art, including paintings, drawings, etchings, and sculptures. With essays...

The untold story of women artists in the United States and the social impact of their work during the crucial decades of the 1950s to the 1970s. In Women Artists in Midcentury America, readers embark on a journey spanning two decades, delving into the...

The first comprehensive account of Charles J. Connick, America's most innovative and influential stained glass artist working in the first half of the twentieth century When Charles J. Connick (1875-1945) began his stained glass career in Pittsburgh in the 1890s, America's fascination with the...

Robert Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter. As a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and early '80s, Irwin focused on exploring aesthetic perception as the fundamental feature of art, culminating in...

If you look at doodles closely, you will find that they have an inherent beauty, which depicts the mind of the artist. Other paintings are drawn consciously and hence; do not depict an artist's viewpoint as beautifully as doodles do. Doodles are drawn with...